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Our task is to help stimulate innovation and raise the international competitiveness of British industry through Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

Did you know:
• Only around 15% of UK businesses have registered a trade mark overseas and only 9% registered a patent.

IP Awareness Overseas
• Around 25% of UK businesses operating overseas cite IP as one of their biggest concerns (UKTI survey)
• The territorial nature of IP rights is not well understood
• It’s a first to file system!
• Routes for enforcing rights overseas are complex and alleged infringers often have home player advantages